Ernest Cossart
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1876-09-24
Locus Natus: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Et ut: Emil Gottfried von Holst
The Jolson Story
At the turn of the 20th century, young Asa Yoelson decides to go against the wishes of his cantor father and pursue a career in show business....
release : 1946.10.10popularis : 3.292
Tower of London
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne,...
release : 1939.11.17popularis : 5.817
The Great Ziegfeld
Lavish biography of Flo Ziegfeld, the producer who became Broadway's biggest starmaker.
release : 1936.04.08popularis : 7.869
The Scoundrel
A ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, doomed to be a "restless" spirit for being unloved. A heavenly power gives him a...
release : 1935.04.30popularis : 1.74
Tonight and Every Night
An American girl falls for an RAF pilot while performing at a British music hall.
release : 1945.01.09popularis : 2.547
Tom Brown's School Days
When private tutor Thomas Arnold (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) becomes headmaster at Rugby, a boy's preparatory school in England, he puts into place a...
release : 1940.06.26popularis : 3.347
Angel
While vacationing without her busy British diplomat husband, a married woman falls for another man.
release : 1937.10.29popularis : 6.111
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's...
release : 1939.03.24popularis : 0.998
Cluny Brown
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.
release : 1946.06.02popularis : 7.853
Love from a Stranger
Cecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. She decides to travel rather than marrying her fiance Nigel...
release : 1947.11.15popularis : 1.809
Kings Row
Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.
release : 1942.02.02popularis : 4.504
Skylark
As her fifth wedding anniversary approaches, a woman realizes that she is fed up with always coming in second to her husband's advertising business....
release : 1941.11.21popularis : 1.509
Desire
Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses American engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of...
release : 1936.04.11popularis : 5.317
A Bill of Divorcement
Father's return from the insane asylum spells calamity for the Fairfield family.
release : 1940.05.31popularis : 0.865
Love Letters
When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. The man with no talent for writing...
release : 1945.10.26popularis : 5.096
Never Say Die
Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry...
release : 1939.03.08popularis : 4.972
The Magnificent Fraud
A Chicago con man pays an actor to pose as a slain South American dictator.
release : 1939.07.19popularis : 6.346
My American Wife
Ann Sothern essays the title role in My American Wife. The story opens in Smelter City, Arizona, where the richest man in town is grizzled old Indian...
release : 1936.08.06popularis : 1.603
Murder with Pictures
Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for...
release : 1936.09.24popularis : 3.945
The Light That Failed
A London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind.
release : 1939.12.24popularis : 3.733
Two for Tonight
A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days.
release : 1935.09.12popularis : 1.679
Zaza
A seductive music hall star falls in love with a married aristocrat.
release : 1938.12.29popularis : 1.648
Knickerbocker Holiday
The wild and woolly early days of New York -- when it was still known as New Amsterdam -- provide the backdrop for this period musical-comedy. In...
release : 1944.03.17popularis : 1.838
Kitty Foyle
A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval.
release : 1940.12.27popularis : 5.037
Letter of Introduction
An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter shows up. It seems that she is an actress and is also...
release : 1938.08.05popularis : 3.087
Palm Springs
A gambler in need of cash plots a romance between his daughter and a wealthy Englishman. The daughter, however, has plans of her own.
release : 1936.06.05popularis : 2.297
The Lady Fights Back
Engineer Owen Merrill travels to the Pacific Northwest where he plans to build a dam. He stays at the Salmon Club, run by attractive Heather McHale....
release : 1937.10.01popularis : 2.415
John Loves Mary
After four long years apart, there are so many things returning World War II soldier John Lawrence wants to tell his sweetheart, Mary McKinley. That...
release : 1949.02.04popularis : 2.669
Lady of the Tropics
Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.
release : 1939.08.11popularis : 10.233
Three Smart Girls
The three Craig sisters – Penny, Kay, and Joan – go to New York to stop their divorced father from marrying gold digger Donna Lyons and...
release : 1936.12.20popularis : 5.082
Carnival Queen
A young woman not only inherits her late father's estate, she also gets control of a carnival on the edge of bankruptcy in this comedy. Intrigued by...
release : 1937.10.02popularis : 1.245
Champagne Waltz
In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss...
release : 1937.02.05popularis : 1.026
Top of the Town
In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper....
release : 1937.04.17popularis : 2.789
Accent on Youth
A young secretary falls in love with her boss, a middle-aged playwright. Complications ensue when her boss' son falls for her.
release : 1935.08.23popularis : 1.439
The Girl of the Limberlost
Elnora Comstock lives on the edge of a great swamp and collects butterflies to sell in order to go to high school and pay for violin lessons. Her...
release : 1945.10.11popularis : 1.153
It's Your America
This short--long rumored to have been directed by John Ford--was produced by the US government specifically for veterans returning home from World...
release : 1946.07.25popularis : 0.632
Charley's Aunt
In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt from Brazil--where the nuts come from.
release : 1941.08.01popularis : 2.205
As Good as Married
When a boss proposes marriage to his secretary, she discovers that the arrangement is solely for tax purposes.
release : 1937.05.09popularis : 1.192
One Foot in Heaven
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
release : 1941.11.01popularis : 7.981